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The structure and pace of the story, unfolding from the perspectives of multiple characters, seems promising until the story became so outlandish that by book's end I was angry at the authors. Beyond Joona and a developmentally disabled character, everyone else was thoroughly weak, petty, non-communicative and unlikeable. I had hopes for Joona's former diver colleague but even that woman devolved into a trite sexual harasser. Without divulging the storyline and outcome, I will say that there is a key woman whose mannerisms and activities are so over the top that I couldn't suspend my judgment at that point of the authors just piling the evil on willy-nilly. The attempts to be clever by the author on plot and twists are overkill, pardon the pun. Normally I'm a pretty easygoing reader, but this book was so dumb that, for the first time, I need to write a bad review for a book. Clearly, I am not going to continue with the following books in this series.


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The Hypnotist A Novel Detective Inspector Joona Linna Lars Kepler Ann Long Books Reviews

Complex yet compelling. Several things about this novel I really like. First - the place. I’m as fascinated about the geography as well as the culture. So very descriptive. Second, the interaction and links between the characters. Things that happened years ago surface years later. Characters like Aida and her brother have depth as well as the perpetrators of these crimes. The former so unique seemingly ambivalent but actually warm and caring while the latter so cold and twisted. Finally, the inner strength of Joona. You knew he “always get to the truth”. It’s been two days since I finished it and still thinking about it. So very well done.
The Hypnotist, which was first published in Swedish in 2009 by a husband and wife writing team, introduces Joona Linna, a dogged and charmingly self-assured and indeed hunky Detective Inspector with Sweden's National Criminal Investigation Department. Linna winds up investigating the gruesome murder of a family which has left one survivor, a fifteen-year-old boy who is barely alive when the book begins. Linna calls in a therapist for help, Erik Maria Bark, who specializes in cases involving acute trauma. Bark used to use hypnosis in group therapy sessions, but he has since sworn off hypnosis--for reasons that are eventually explained. Still, he makes an exception in this case because extracting information from the traumatized teen may not only help the police find the killer, but it could save the life of the boy's sister. This would be a much shorter book, though, if the hypnosis session went well. It doesn't, and it leads to some very bad things happening.

I enjoyed reading The Hypnotist very much. It was a page-turner. It kept me up late. Still, there was a fair amount that bothered me about the story. Erik's wife Simone acts irrationally much of the time, and she and her father do some really stupid things--the kind of things that get teenagers killed in horror movies. I won't give examples so as not to spoil the plot, but Erik should divorce this crazy woman. There's a subplot involving Pokemon characters that just seems way over the top. And generally speaking, the book feels like it's all over the place. A second crime occurs that takes over the plot for so long that you forget about the initial bad guy. And the authors focus on a bunch of different characters--Joona Linna, Erik, Simone, Simone's father--in a way that seems kind of scattershot. So, I had some problems with the book, and yet it was compelling enough that I intend to read the next installment in the series, The Nightmare I'm quite taken by Joona Linna.

-- Debra Hamel
This is definitely a page turner of a book. It captivated my interest immediately and I couldn't wait to get back to the book each and every night until it was finished. I am convinced this was a truly great thriller. Two mysteries are contained within the pages....Who killed the three family members? And who kidnapped the hypnotist's son?

I really liked that most of the chapters were short and then quite unexpectedly, there would be a longer chapter. The characters were shaped and well developed. Joona Linna was a Swedish Detective
with an obsessive need to hear the words, "you are right". Erik Maria Bark was a psychiatric hypnotist researcher who depended on too many pills to aid his sleep and had a sobering relationship with his wife, Simone or Sixan. She leaned more on her father for help than she did her husband. It was all quite understandable as I journeyed from beginning to end. With the odd assortment of patients Bark dealt with it was indeed a psychological thriller and had this reader gripped and breathing heavy throughout the read!
The structure and pace of the story, unfolding from the perspectives of multiple characters, seems promising until the story became so outlandish that by book's end I was angry at the authors. Beyond Joona and a developmentally disabled character, everyone else was thoroughly weak, petty, non-communicative and unlikeable. I had hopes for Joona's former diver colleague but even that woman devolved into a trite sexual harasser. Without divulging the storyline and outcome, I will say that there is a key woman whose mannerisms and activities are so over the top that I couldn't suspend my judgment at that point of the authors just piling the evil on willy-nilly. The attempts to be clever by the author on plot and twists are overkill, pardon the pun. Normally I'm a pretty easygoing reader, but this book was so dumb that, for the first time, I need to write a bad review for a book. Clearly, I am not going to continue with the following books in this series.